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Men's Swimming/Diving Stays Close With No. 6 Florida Through Two Days At Big Al
December 06, 2008 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Princeton picked up four victories, including a 100 fly win for Doug Lennox and a 400 IM win for Colin Hanna, as the 22nd-ranked men's swimming and diving team continued its close battle with No. 6 Florida in the Big Al Invitational.
Florida currently leads the field with 691.5 points, while Princeton is second with 655 points. Utah is third with 366.5 points. Princeton held a small lead through the preliminary session. The Tigers carried that momentum into the night's first event, when the team of Lennox, Jon Christensen, Mike Carter and Geoff Faux won the 200 medley relay in 1:29.34.
The momentum only grew over the next two events, starting with the 400 IM. Hanna won the race with a B-cut time of 3:48.93, while senior teammate Will Schaffer won the consolation final in 3:57.75. Lennox followed by winning the 100 fly in a B-cut time of 46.53. He joined a pair of freshman teammates in the final, as Charley Wang placed fourth in 49.79 and Mike Monovoukas took seventh in 50.60.
Jon Hartmann took fourth in the 200 free (1:38.65), while freshman Colin Cordes took eighth in 1:41.35. Christensen, yet another talented freshman, followed with a second-place finish in the 100 breast (55.87), while teammates Schaffer (57.34) and Easton Chen (57.80) placed sixth and seventh, respectively. Wang added a seventh-place finish in the 100 back (50.93).
Junior Dan Dickerson finished second in the 3-meter diving competition (337.65), while the 800 free relay team of Lennox, Cordes, Travis McNamara and Hartmann won the event with a B-cut time of 6:34.82.
Sunday will have a preliminary session at 10 a.m. and a finals session at 6 p.m. The finals will be streamed live on TigerZone, which you can sign up for through GoPrincetonTigers.com. Admission to both sessions is free. The following is Sunday's order of events:
W 200 back
M 200 back
W 100 free
M 100 free
W 200 breast
M 200 breast
W 200 fly
M 200 fly
W/M 1650 free (all but
fastest heat), to begin
around 4 p.m.
finals session will open with 1650 free finals